Srinagar: The number of the Covid-19 patients in J&K mounted to 581 as sixteen more people tested positive of the novel coronavirus in Kashmir on Wednesday.
Officials that among them, 10 were confirmed at the COVID-19 testing laboratory at Chest Disease hospital Dalgate and include nine from Anantnag district and one from Srinagar.
Six were confirmed at Viral Diagnostic Lab of SKIMS Soura and include four from Budgam and one each from Baramulla and Kulgam districts.
Regarding 9 new cases in Anantnag, 6 are from Khapora Larnoo and 3 from Nowgam Shangas. With these cases, the number of cases has risen 69 in the south Kashmir District.
There are now 581 cases in Jammu and Kashmir and 58 of them are in Jammu division.